Download poker safely

Framed chip-rail panel with umber chips, sand edge dashes, and card backs.
Chip-rail panel used across this install guide for the PokerTH Releases path. Felt Quill original chip-rail geometry for this install guide (not a PokerTH product logo).

Trusted doors only

Safe downloads start at GitHub Releases, Snap pokerth, or Flathub net.pokerth.PokerTH. Home: poker.

Bookmark releases. Refuse Softonic-style pages. Which file: releases.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket so the next reimage still finds the same install door.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon during club hours.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

After each update, replay one short bot table before you declare the machine ready for guests.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before you image a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Refuse browser extensions that claim to accelerate a download; they are unrelated to PokerTH packages.

Windows SmartScreen habits

Confirm the filename matches PokerTH-Combined-*-Setup.exe. No winget id was found.

Guide: install on Windows. Computer: set up on this computer.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket so the next reimage still finds the same install door.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon during club hours.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

After each update, replay one short bot table before you declare the machine ready for guests.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before you image a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Refuse browser extensions that claim to accelerate a download; they are unrelated to PokerTH packages.

macOS Gatekeeper and brew

Open the Combined DMG from Releases. Homebrew cask pokerth is disabled for Gatekeeper on this review date.

Mac guide: install on macOS.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket so the next reimage still finds the same install door.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon during club hours.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

After each update, replay one short bot table before you declare the machine ready for guests.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before you image a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Refuse browser extensions that claim to accelerate a download; they are unrelated to PokerTH packages.

Linux package honesty

sudo snap install pokerth and Flatpak net.pokerth.PokerTH resolved upstream.

Guides: Linux, Ubuntu.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket so the next reimage still finds the same install door.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon during club hours.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

After each update, replay one short bot table before you declare the machine ready for guests.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before you image a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Refuse browser extensions that claim to accelerate a download; they are unrelated to PokerTH packages.

When SmartScreen or Gatekeeper interrupts, confirm the asset still matches the GitHub file you selected.

What safety means here

PokerTH states no ads, no real-money gambling, and no tracking in README. Read is it safe before exposing a dedicated server.

Disclosure: disclosure. Privacy: privacy. GitHub: GitHub overview.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket so the next reimage still finds the same install door.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon during club hours.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

After each update, replay one short bot table before you declare the machine ready for guests.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before you image a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Refuse browser extensions that claim to accelerate a download; they are unrelated to PokerTH packages.

Checksum and mirror myths

Prefer the official release asset list over third-party mirrors that rehost bytes beside adware.

Never pay an unlock site for an AGPL client that already publishes free Combined Setup builds on GitHub.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket so the next reimage still finds the same install door.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon during club hours.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

After each update, replay one short bot table before you declare the machine ready for guests.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before you image a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door.
  • Prove one free table.

Refuse browser extensions that claim to accelerate a download; they are unrelated to PokerTH packages.

Prefer GitHub Releases Combined assets, Snap pokerth, or Flathub for installs.